Anish Kapoor’s Work Shown at the Grand Palais, Paris Ecole Nationale, and Galerie Kamel Mennour
Leviathon Photo: Arrestedmotion.com
“Swallowed by the Monster”
While in Paris, I saw Anish Kapoor’s work in three locations in Paris. As part of the Monumenta Programme, Amish’s Leviathon was at the Grand Palais (pictured above). To walk inside his gargantuan Leviathon is to submit, to become a Jonah.
In the chapel of the the Beaux-arts de Paris L’ecole nationale superieure, Kapoor mounted a series of cement sculptures — tall, grey and hallowed out. Kapoor’s work is a kind of “proto-architecture, …of edifaces from the dawn of humanity.”
While at the Kamel Mennour Galerie, a one-man exhibit Almost Nothing, showed Kapoor’s work “based on the idea of the void and immateriality.”
Kapoor’s pieces trick our perceptions in illuminating and delightful ways.
From The Guardian:
Kapoor has dedicated Leviathon to Ai Weiwei, a dissident Chinese artist who has not been heard from for the past month. Kapoor wants all museums and galleries to close for one day in protest of Weiwi’s possible mistreatment by authorities.
